Word: laski
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...Labor victory had made Harold Laski an adviser to the new Government. It remained to be seen whether he was also to be its official philosopher...
...politico-economist, Laski acquired a brilliant international reputation. He is a great pal of Washington's more vehement New Dealers...
Revolution by Consent. Unlike most British Laborites, before the war Laski had abandoned all hope for achieving socialism by gradual reforms. (Said one critic: "He never does things by halves, he always does things by doubles.") His formula: the overthrow of "acquisitive [capitalist] society" through "revolution by consent...
...Laski argues that the West has lost its Christian religion, needs a new faith. The Russian Revolution, he says, is the early Christian Church. Capitalism is paganism, socialism is the new, true faith...
...altar, he is perfectly willing to sacrifice, if necessary, the Western ideal of freedom. But he spends much time rationalizing the sacrifice. Wrote Laski last year: "If the Communist Party of the Soviet Union left the central principle of its faith to the chance decision of an electorate . . . that would be as remarkable as a willingness on the part of Western democracies to see without repining the access of socialist parties to the state power...